Random Animal Facts

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    Swimming Pigs
    Swimming Pigs
    There's an island in the Bahamas called Big Major Cay (or Pig Beach), which is only inhabited by swimming pigs.
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    Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
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    A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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    Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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    The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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    Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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    Giant River Otter
    Giant River Otter
    Giant river otters still exist in three remote river systems in South America. They can grow to almost 6 feet in length, hunt in packs, and even take on caimans.
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    Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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